The devastating fires in Los Angeles have numerous secondary effects as scientists are finding out now off the coast of Southern California. Researchers from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of ...

The dynamic interrelationships within marine ecosystems are increasingly being understood through the study of protozoan communities, which serve as vital components in the aquatic food web. These ...

The Constitutional Court of Ecuador ruled that coastal marine ecosystems have legal rights that must be protected, potentially requiring stricter limits on human activities like industrial fishing.

The prospect of heat waves without end, increasingly destructive floods, relentless drought, rapidly rising sea levels, and ...

What can fossil records teach scientists about ancient ecosystems and marine environments? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence for repeated prehistoric occupation in the remote island cluster of Kitsissut, north of Greenland, indicating the first people in the High Arctic were skilled ...

For this study, Andrea Bryndum-Buchholz received funding from the Ocean Frontier Institute. Extreme ocean changes due to climate change are not an abstract or future scenario. This summer alone, 23 ...

A marine biologist says the impacts of Wellington's sewage overflow on a nearby marine reserve is depressing to witness. About 70 million litres of untreated waste is now being pumped 1.8 kilometres ...